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In honor of Broadway and film legend Marvin Hamlisch, who passed away on August 6, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and more came out to sing some of the composer’s biggest songs.

Last night (September 18) at a memorial for Hamlisch at New York City’s Julliard School, where he was the youngest person to be accepted at just seven years old, Franklin put her own soulful spin on “Nobody Does It Better” from the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, originally performed by Carly Simon. Streisand also sang a song of Hamlisch’s, “The Way We Were” from the film of the same name, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Streisand, who closed out the show, talked about meeting Hamlisch for the first time in 1963 when she was starring in Funny Girl on Broadway. Hamlisch was not only the rehearsal pianist, but was assigned the job of getting everyone’s coffee in the morning. Since Babs wasn’t too fond of coffee, he would bring her chocolate doughnuts.